On the Money

TOM RUZIKA REFINANCES LA'S OLD BANK DISTRICT
“This is giving a presence to a dark area of town at night, and Los Angeles an identity,” says lighting designer Tom Ruzika of his illumination of the Old Bank District, two blocks within a historic district of Los Angeles that is being revamped. The LD is engaged in lighting the exterior facades of the structures, brightening a once-blighted section of the city that adjoins Skid Row.
Tom Gilmore, a transplanted New Yorker, is a key player in ...